Musical: Lisa Peterson: Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (U.S.A. 2017) Ernest Shackleton Loves Me is a New York musical about a Brooklyn single mother and Ernest Shackleton’s Transantarctic journey. I didn’t see it live; a recording appeared on YLE Areena, where it will be for two more weeks. In the story, Continue Reading
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Research Blog Antarctica #164 – The Winter Over
Fiction: Matthew Iden: The Winter Over (Thomas & Mercer, 2017) At first glance, The Winter Over by Matthew Iden falls into the familiar category of Antarctic thrillers where manly men face the travails of human weakness and the unforgiving environment. And indeed, superficially the book seems to have some of Continue Reading
Juhana @ Ropecon
Meitsillä on Ropeconissa kaksi ohjelmaa: Tuhannen viillon kuolema -larpin con-versio lauantaina. Lisätietoja täällä. Apurahahakemustyöpaja sunnuntaina jossa käsitellään sitä miten roolipeli- ja larppiprojekteille saa kulttuuriapurahoja.
Rikkaiden unelmat -trilogian toinen osa Kuparihärkä ilmestyy syksyllä
Rikkaiden unelmat -trilogian toinen osa Kuparihärkä ilmestyy syksyllä 2018! Kirja on ennakkotilattavissa täältä!
Working on Vampire 5th Edition (also: Nazis)
I spent this spring working on the 5th edition of Vampire: the Masquerade. The first releases on the 5th edition line are the Corebook and the Camarilla and Anarch books. I’m the lead writer on the Anarch book but I also contributed to the two others. It’s been a strange Continue Reading
Chernobyl, Mon Amour now in crowdfunding!
In 2016, I published a roleplaying game about love and radioactivity in Finnish, called Tsernobyl, rakastettuni. The crowdfunding campaign for the English version, Chernobyl, Mon Amour, just launched, so check it out and back it!
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #28: Hot Girls Wanted – Turned On
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. In episode five of Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #163 – Frozen Solid
Fiction: James M. Tabor: Frozen Solid (2013, Ballantine Books) There’s a lot of thrillers set in Antarctica, but James M. Tabor’s Frozen Solid is better than most, at least within the confines of the genre. Protagonist Hallie Leland arrives at the Amundsen Scott Station at the South Pole only to Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #162 – Terre Mécanique: Antarctica
Comic book: Jean Baptiste Andréae & Patrick Fitou: Terre Mécanique: Antarctica (Casterman, 2004) Antarctica is the second volume in the three-part series Terre Mécanique. The first volume is set on a ship where a permanent post-apocalyptic party goes on as it sails across endless ocean. The rhinoceros Fileon and a Continue Reading
Kuusi henkilökohtaista huomiota suomalaisuudesta
(Tämä kirjoitus julkaistiin alkujaan Imagen saitilla olleessa Pikseliparatiisi-blogissani 6. 12. 2017.) Olen suomalainen, eli suomalaisten ikiaikaisen heimon jäsen. Koulun historiantunnilla meille opetettiin että suomalaiset vaelsivat pohjoiseen yhtenä porukkana jossa oletettavasti kaikkien meidän esi-isätkin oli mukana. Äitini on kotoisin Pohjanmaalta. Isäni sukujuuret ovat ensin Ruotsissa ja kauemmas historiaan mentäessä Sveitsissä. Koska Continue Reading